What surprises me is that large-scale insurers aren't more stringent about cameras and evidence-taking. Maybe the ship was high-risk, but dash cams are becoming pretty normal now - shouldn't the industry be ahead of the curve, especially with that amount of money involved?
Something I keep noticing: how nice and helpful American military always seems to be in stories like this. A U.S. ship rescuing Fillipinos, helicopter deployment and all. Then U.S. special forces extracting a British person from a dangerous situation.
The Americans must accumulate a ton of favour this way.
These actions are taken in order to support the legitimacy of the USA as 'world police'. They're not doing these patrols altruistically, but rather to set precedent and continue to justify American interference in the world. This is why its policy.
The "America = world police" trope is overplayed. Every nation uses its influence to assert its agenda; the U.S. simply has the most resources, and as far as agendas go, the U.S.'s has been one of the most mutually beneficial. Of course anyone determined to find reasons to hate a group of people will succeed...
I'm loving the use of three.js to make the header image's water ripple. That's a really nice utilisation of a water effect on a website, usually I detest the effect.
The article didn't mention how Iliopoulos came to acquire his wealth in the first place. I did a few cursory Google searches but couldn't find much about him. This is truly a remarkable story.
